All CAST Projects
2025 Artfinity Gaze to the Stars. Photo by Caroline Alden.
Solar Return for Change
Amplifying climate research through collaborative jazz performance
Suket Dhir points to a detail on a jamdani weaving at the 2025 Artfinity ACT Lecture with Abhijit Banerjee. Photo: Gearoid Dolan.
Cheyenne Olivier & Suket Dhir
Weaving economic narratives through a traditional Bengali craft
Ana Rajcevic. Photo: Matjaz Rust.
Ana Rajcevic
Exploring embodiment through animal-inspired neuroprosthetics
The Imaginary Atlas, Amazonia: Reimagining Cities within the Brazilian Rainforest, Kent Larson. Image courtesy of the artist
The Imaginary Atlas, Amazonia: Reimagining Cities within the Brazilian Forests
Envisioning sustainable Amazonian cities at COP30
Fungi prototype. Image courtesy of the artist.
Of Boar and Fungi: A Nuclear Love Affair
Exploring radioactive entanglements in post-Chernobyl forests
Sasha Marianna Salzmann. Image courtesy of the artist.
Sasha Marianna Salzmann
Exploring migration, identity, and belonging through German theater
Mark Rau Headshot. Image courtesy of the artist
Musical Acoustics, Synthesis, and Audio Effects
Bridging sound science and musical creativity
Rendering for Touching Grass, A Digitally Physical Experience. Courtesy of Joshua Higgason.
Touching Grass, A Digitally Physical Experience
Blurring the digital and natural through immersive experience
My Onliness. Credit: One Eight Theater, Soho Think Tank, and IRT Theater.
My Onliness
A nonconformist and playful performance about the possible nightmares of the near future
Es Devlin draws Come Home Again, Tate Modern, 2024. Image courtesy of Es Devlin.
Es Devlin
Exploring biodiversity, linguistic diversity, and collective AI-generated poetry
Golden City Album Cover. Courtesy of Miguel Zenón.
Golden City
An extended musical composition for Large Ensemble, inspired by California’s rich and complex history.
Professor Jen Light performs partner acrobatics
Thinking on Your Feet
Exploring the potentials of embodied education through dance
KINETIC. Photo credit: Ben Doyle
Kinetic Ensemble
“Agile virtuosity and vibrant sound… brilliantly executed” — Arts and Culture Texas
Jaffer Kolb and Ivi Diamantopoulou, 2019. Courtesy of the artist.
Queer Assemblies
Three installations evoking famed architect Bruce Goff’s eclectic palette
Derek David. Photo Credit: Courtesy of the artist.
Di Fayerdike Libe – Passionate Love – די פֿײַערדיקע ליבע
Exploring modern love through Yiddish music and culture
Magma Matter, Cristina Parreño Alonso, Courtesy of the artist.
Magma Matter
Reconsidering the aesthetics of function
The Attestation by Jeanette Andrews. Credit HErickson/MIT.
Jeanette Andrews
Exploring the bounds of perception and interpretation through magic
Michael Mayo. Image credit: Lauren Desberg
Michael Mayo
Layers of heavenly harmonizing, hard-hitting beatboxing, and heartfelt crooning
Ekene Ijeoma, featuring Dr. Kristín Taylor, Dr. Bryan Stanley, Deconstructed Anthems: Nebraska 12 (2015)
2021.
Software-generated score, incarceration data, piano, machine-plotted ink drawings, duration 18:12 min. Installation view, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE, USA
Photo by Colin Conces courtesy of Bemis Center for Contemporary Art.
Deconstructed Anthems: Massachusetts
Sonifying the increasing loss of Black Americans to carceral systems
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme. Courtesy of the artists.
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme
Considering embodied memory through sound, video, and performance
Albert Figurt, courtesy of the artist.
Albert Figurt
Exploring the many lives of the Desktop Narrative format
Joshua Bennett performs America Will Be (2022).